Ever since Apple introduced the Active Directory plugin to the Directory Utility in OS 10.4, single sign-ons using AD credentials among Mac and PCs has never been so easy.  The setup has been called the Magic Triangle, and is best described as follows.

We noticed a lot of bandwidth being used by an Apple TV 2.  Which was odd, because it was just sitting idle.  We never did anything with it, yet it was sucking down 3 Gb of bandwidth daily.

Schools out, time to clean out the student network folders.  One could just use the GUI and kid by kid delete their files.  But that's inefficient.  Here is a much simpler way.

Fire up terminal or ssh into your server.

Now go to the class of xxxx folder

cd /Shared\ Items/Students/Class\ of\ 20xx

   *notice the \ before any space in the file name.

Run the following command inside the "Class of 20xx" folders:

sudo find . -mindepth 2 -delete

 This will list every file/folder inside of a student’s folder, and delete it with extreme prejudice.

Educational institutions are finding it harder and harder to provide fast server storage in the classroom, and make files available at home.  With the recent advancements in mobile devices, the need arises for these devices to access the files as well.  The answer?  Is it opening up your server to the internet or Google Apps?  No, it's leveraging Dropbox in an extraordinary way.